Seo Min-kyu is a three-time South Korean national medalist.
18 Facts About Seo Min-kyu
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Seo Min-kyu was born on October 14,2008, in Daegu, South Korea.
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Seo Min-kyu won the national junior gold medal at the 2022 South Korean Championships.
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Seo Min-kyu cleanly landed most of his jumps in the free skate, only to fall at the triple Salchow-double Axel sequence and edge calls on two Lutz jumps.
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Seo Min-kyu ranked fourth in the short program and third in the free, winning the bronze medal.
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In January, at the 2023 South Korean Championships, Seo Min-kyu placed fourth in the short program.
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Seo Min-kyu placed second in the free skate, 11.17 points behind Cha Jun-hwan, and won the bronze medal.
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Seo Min-kyu was named the first alternate for the 2023 World Junior Championships in Calgary.
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In late July, Seo Min-kyu competed at the 2023 South Korean ISU Junior Grand Prix Qualifiers, where he won the gold medal, thus earning two assignments on the Junior Grand Prix circuit.
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Seo Min-kyu went on to compete on the senior level at the annual South Korean Ranking Competition, winning the silver medal.
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Seo Min-kyu was narrowly second in the free skate after singling one of his planned triple Axels, finishing 1.54 points behind Japan's Rio Nakata, but remained first overall by 1.44 points and claimed the gold medal.
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Seo Min-kyu said that he viewed the result as a vindication of his belief in importance of program components in addition to the technical elements.
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Seo Min-kyu began his season by winning gold at the domestic ISU Junior Grand Prix Qualifiers and was given two Junior Grand Prix assignments as a result of his placement.
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At the 2024 JGP Czech Republic, Seo Min-kyu placed third in the short program and second in the free skate but managed to accumulate enough points to win the gold medal.
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Seo Min-kyu went on to take bronze at 2024 JGP Poland after placing eleventh in the short program but winning the free skate.
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At the Junior Grand Prix Final in Grenoble, France, Seo Min-kyu placed fifth in the short program after falling on a triple flip attempt.
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Seo Min-kyu would go to deliver a clean free skate, winning that segment of the competition and moving up to the silver medal position overall.
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Seo Min-kyu placed second in that competition segment and won the silver medal overall behind Rio Nakata of Japan.